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XXX. Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society of 



London. 



1845. 

 Nov. 4. A HE special thanks of the Society were ordered to be presented to 

 Joseph Janson, Esq., for his present of three additional Cabinets for 

 the Society's Collection of Dried Plants. 



1846. 

 May 24. The Secretary announced that the late Joseph Janson, Esq. F.L.S., 

 had bequeathed to the Society a Legacy of £100. 



1847. 

 Jan. 8. At a Special General Meeting convened by the Council in the 

 terms of the following circular : — 



" Linnean Society, 32 Soho Square, 

 " Sir, December 28th, 1846. 



" You are requested to attend a Special General Meeting of the Society, on 



Friday the 8th of January next, at two o'clock in the afternoon precisely, to 



consider the subject of the following Statement and Resolution of Council. 



" The late Edward Rudge, Esq., F.L.S., who died on the 3rd of September 

 last, has in his will made the following bequest : — 



' I give and bequeath to the President and Council for the time being 

 of the Linnean Society of London, the sum of Two Hundred Pounds, in 

 trust, to invest the same in the names of Trustees, in the purchase of 3 per 

 cent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, and from time to time, as occasion 

 may require, out of the Dividends thereof^ to purchase a Gold Medal, to 

 be called ' The Linnean Medal,' to be awarded by the President and 

 Council of the said Society, at their discretion, to the Fellow of the said 

 Society who shall write the best communication in each volume which 

 after my decease shall be published by the said Society, in either of the 

 four departments of Natural History, every such Gold Medal to contain 

 the Profile Bust of Linnaeus in his full dress, encircled by his name and 

 the dates of his birth and death on the one side, and the engraved name 

 of the Fellow of the said Society to whom such Medal shall be awarded, 

 encircled by a wreath of the Linruea borealis, on the obverse.' 



